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Indian Hill Farm milk is delivered to consum- 
ers IN Worcester each morning, at a rate of 

NINE cents per QUART AND FIVE CENTS PER PINT. 

Baby milk from selected thoroughbred Hol- 
stein-Friesian cows, bottled under special seal, 
delivered at a rate of eleven cents per quart 
and six cents per pint. 

Eggs and poultry — broilers, roasters, capons — 
delivered at prevailing market rates. 

Pure strain, single-comb White Leghorn and 
White Plymouth Rock day-old chicks, breeding 
and laying stock shipped direct from farm. 



Address all communicalions to 

fflDIAN H(f,f, VARWi, (nc. 

5 Lakewood Street, Worcester, Mass. 

Office Telephones, Park 3702 and Cedar 1039-M. 

Farm Telephone, Charlton 4-2. 

Farm Post-Office, Dodge, Mass. 

Railroad and Express Shipping Point. Charlton Depot. 



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i^ AND noru ihal the days are hoi and long, 
^"^ And the cil\) writhes in heat and pain, 
I hear the children's laugh and song. 
The smell of the hay comes sweet and strong — 
// IS good to go hacli to the farm again." — GreenLEAF. 



PUBLISHED BY 

Indian Hill Farm, inc., NA/orcester, Massachusetts 



COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY 

George M. Wright 



the harrigan press, Inc. 



JUL 18 1916 ©CI.A437)17 



ITOET OF A FARM 



INDIAN Hill KARM. 







THIS is the story of a farm in 
the heart of Central Massa- 
chusetts, nearly a thousand feet 
above the level of the sea, graced 
by the winds that breathe through 
forests of pine and hardwoods, 
overlooking vast stretches of wood- 
land, field and waterways. It is 
a farm which has not lost sight of 
old traditions, yet a farm which 
has followed the advance of sci- 
ence in making its products whole- 
some. Cattle, whose ancestry dates 
back to the days of the ancient 
Friesians, graze here in abundant 
pastures through the summers and 
live winters of content in the shel- 
ter of the most modern housing. 
Sheep of old English lineage forage in the brush-land, advance guard 
into new pastures. Thousands of white- feathered fowl send forth 
their gladsome calls from the extensive poultry houses and ranges. 
Gaily-plumed pheasants, which seek to hide their fashions from the 
eyes of mankind, rear their young here for life in the neighboring 
woodland covers. Generous acres, teeming with golden grain and 
sweet-scented hay, await in season the reaper; orchards bloom and 
bear; gardens yield their bounty to the hand of the farmers. Men 
trained to a high mark of efficiency toil here, always guided by the 
rule that cleanliness must dominate all. It is a farm of two hundred 
and fifty acres in the northern part of the town of Charlton, Worces- 
ter County. It is called Indian Hill Farm, because in the days of 
the red man's power in New England, here was a meeting-place for 
Massachusetts tribes. Here they raised their fields of maize, and 
left their stubble to be found in the soil when the white man built his 
first dwelling here, nearly two hundred years ago. 




Sunshine Stable Yard 



"A ND far amap shall rise 

The drorvsy low of coivs, and farm-'^arJ cries." — Davidson. 



Indian Hill Farm, Incorporated, is the result of the ideas of 
George M. Wright, Mayor of the City of Worcester, 1913, 1914, 
1915, 1916; president and general manager of the Wright Wire 
Company, with factories in Worcester and Palmer ; president 
of the Park Trust Company of Worcester; and chairman 
of the board of directors of the New England California 
Corporation, which owns a large ranch in San Joaquin, California, 
raising olives, almonds and pears for Eastern markets. The farm 
is not in any sense a toy, but a real scientific enterprise conducted 
under sound business principles, aimed to reach the highest mark in 
the production of milk under the most sanitary conditions, and the 
raising of high-class poultry. Mr. Wright has long been of the mind 
that pure milk is not the dream of an idealist; and confident that a 
farm subjected to the most rigid requirements of modern sanitation 
could be established and maintained, he is now demonstrating that 
belief on Indian Hill. 




Dairy Power Plant 



**T^/£ flee an>ai; from ctlies, bul we bring the best of cities with us." 
'" — Emerson. 

Scientific The primary principle of the scientific dairy is that 

Dairying of keeping milk free from contamination. Indian Hill 
Farm is conducted on the hypothesis that milk was 
never intended to see the light of day, for, under the normal method 
of nourishment, the milk coming directly to the young, there is little 
danger of contamination. When artificial methods of drawing milk 
and transporting it are resorted to, dangers and new conditions arise. 
Milk then comes in contact with the air and various receptacles and 
apparatus, and thus may collect particles of dirt and foreign matter. 
The problem of securing milk as nearly as possible to the state in 
which it exists in the udder is one that must be met by every con- 
scientious dairyman. It is the problem of reducing contamination 
to the least possible factor. The first contamination is likely to begin 
with the process of milking, and from then on it may take place until 
the milk is consumed. Under the Indian Hill Farm system, from 
the instant it is taken down from the cow, until it is delivered at the 
consumer's door, the milk comes in contact with nothing that is not 
as clean as human agency can make it. 




Sunshine Stable 



^^\\T HERE the cow is, there is Arcadia; so far as her influence prevails, 
ihtre is contentment, humility and sxoeet homel]) life."- — Burroughs. 



Sunshine Sunshine Stable at Indian Hill Farm, completed in 

Stable 1915, is a scientifically arranged housing for cattle, 

of concrete and stone construction, forty by one hun- 
dred and fifty feet in dimensions, providing commodious quarters for 
sixty-five cows, bull and calf pens and a maternity ward. The 
cattle stand on flooring of cork brick, a non-conductor of cold. 
They drink from individual bowls, each fitted with a valve, which, 
through the pressure of the animal's nose, causes the bowl to be 
filled with pure spring water. Windows are so arranged in the walls 
and roof that sun shines on every part of the floor during the day, 
hence its name Sunshme Stable. 

The system of ventilation provides circulation of pure air and 
removal of foul air continuously without there being draughts upon 
the animals. Pure air enters from the outside through flues built in 
the eighteen-inch walls and is released in the center aisles of the stable 
in front of the cows, while impure air passes through ducts in the 
rear, and is released through stacks in the roof. These ventilators 



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Example of Unsanitary Barn Where Milk is Produced 

^^HTHE old, sTvalloTv-haunled barns. 

Brown-gabled, long, and full of seams." — Whittier. 

are regulated by a shaft lever, thus being in complete control 
in all the vagaries of the weather. There are thirty-six square 
inches of inlet and outlet for each animal, or about four times the 
amount considered necessary by experts. Copper screens cover each 
intake, making it impossible for flies, mosquitoes and other injurious 
animal life to enter. The cork brick upon which the cattle stand 
is kept in sanitary condition. Unlike porous timber used in many 
barns, this flooring cannot be an abiding place for germs. As a 
further insurance of cleanliness, the floor is bedded with new pine 
sawdust. Improved metal stanchions, that give the cows freedom 
and ease, take the place of the wooden slats that are found in the 
old fashioned stables. The walls of the interior are plastered over 
wire lathing and painted with washable paint. 

Hay and grain are brought from the adjoining barn, which is 
separated by fire doors, on carriers, which run on a track through 
the center of the stable. The milk of each cow is carried separately 
to a room outside the stable where it is weighed, and the weight 
recorded. It is then poured through a sterile block-tin tube to the 




Milking by Electricity 

^^'T'HE millf pail used to versi/}; a mild and mellow meter. 

When I used to mill( Old Drindle in the yard."- — Foss. 

dairy one story below, where it enters a tank in the dairy. Manure 
is removed to a covered pit, fifty feet outside the stable, on carriers 
which run behind the cows. 

Just outside Sunshine Stable, in the cattle yard, are three silos, 
each rising to a height of thirty-six feet, and having a total capacity 
of four hundred tons. Twenty-five acres of Indian Hill Farm are 
planted to ensilage corn each year, and when this is in the milk 
state, so-called, it is cut, carried to the stable yard, fed to a gasoline- 
powered cutter, which cuts it into pieces of about one-half inch in 
length; and it is then blown through a tube to the top of the silos, 
where it is packed and sealed. 



Milking Men in spotless, white clothing are in charge of the 

Time milking of Indian Hill Farm cows, which is done by 

electric machinery of modern type as the first preventive 
from contamination. At five o'clock in the morning and five o'clock 
in the afternoon the cows are groomed and scrubbed, and their 
udders washed with pure soap and sterile water, and the milk is 



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Bottling Machine, Clarifier, Separator 

((J ET me but do ml; iDor^ from Jap to day 
In field or forest, at the des{( or loom. 

In roaring marlfet place or tranquil room; 
Let me but find it in my heart to sa\). 
When vagrant wishes beclfon me astray, 

'This is my n>orl(; my blessing, not my doom. 

Of all who live, I am the only one by whom 
This wor}( can best be done in the right way'." — Van Dyke. 





Cooler 



Capping Machine 




<*?V[0 man is 
horn into 
ihe world whose 
wor}( is nol born 
W i I h i n him. 
There is always 
worl( and tools 
to work withal, 
for those who 
will; and bless- 
ed are the horn^) 
hands of toil." 
— Lowell. 



Bottling Machine 




Sanitary Dairy — South View 

(i\A/ORK and ^our house shall he dul^ fed; 
Work and rest shall be Tvon." — Carey. 



drawn direct from the cows through a 
sterilized tube to an air-tight bucket, 
and therefore it cannot come in contact 
with the stable air, and no obnoxious 
matter, such as hairs, dirt and, worst of 
all, flies can fall into the milk as in the 
old-fashioned hand milking way. 

Under this process of milking, sterile 
rubber nipples are placed over the teats, 
and over this a metal nipple, which is 
connected by a tube running to the air 
tight bucket, and which is also con- 
nected with an electric air compressor. 
The pressure of the air within the metal 
nipple against the rubber nipple per- 
forms the operation of milking in prac- 
tically the same manner as hand milk- 
ing. A glass in the tube indicates when L 




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Milking Machine 




Sanitary Dairy — North View 

^^\A/HITE and clean as ihe driven snoii>, 

5n»ee/ and bright as morning light." — Anon. 

the cow is milked. The cows take kindly to this method of milking, in 
fact, it seems to be in conformity with the theories established by the 
Friesian originators because it provides contentment among the cattle, 
which these knowing dairymen learned centuries ago is the essential 
to proper production of milk. 



The Dairy The function of the clarifier is to remove any pos- 

House sibility of solid impurities remaining in the milk, not 

only particles of soil or dust, if there be any, but more 
particularly the internal contamination consisting of broken-down 
udder tissues and pus corpuscles, which are almost invariably present 
in all milk. From a hygienic standpoint the removal of this organic 
matter is of great importance. Bacteriologists and sanitarians who 
have examined and analyzed zooglea, the material removed by the 
clarifier, are amazed upon learning its serious nature. In a series 
of experiments in connection with the study of infectious diseases, 
injections of zooglea into guinea pigs, rabbits and mice have almost 
invariably proved fatal. 







*'f f P and a&al? at the breal( o' day 

Athirl the downs of the roaren town." — Old Welsh Song. 




If a cow has garget, the , 
most common of bovine dis- 
seases, even though it be in so 
mild a form as to escape de- 
tection on the part of the 
milker, the milk will contain 
pus corpuscles and broken- 
down tissue which may be 
absolutely loaded with germs. 
The clarifier takes out an 
amazingly large amount of 
this, making the milk cleaner 
and more wholesome. The 

same would be true of the Microscopic View of Sediment Removed 

. BY Clarifier from Certified Milk 

tubercle bacillus m milk from 

cows affected from tuberculosis of the udder, for the germs are usually 
discharged from the udder associated with particles of granular mat- 
ter which make up the tubercle. In this connection, it is of interest 



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(^/^RAY groTvs ihe dawn Tvhile men-fol}( sleep. 

Unseen spreads on the light. 
Till the thrush sings to the colored things. 
And earth forgets the night." — Morris. 



to note that all cows at Indian Hill Farm are submitted to a tubercu- 
lin test frequently, thus making possible the detection of any symptoms 
of tuberculosis in its insipiency. 

After the milk has passed through the clarifier, and while it is 
still warm, it enters another sterile tube and is forced through a cooler, 
an apparatus containing a chamber through which cold spring water 
flows, while the milk passes through pipes coiled about the outside. 
The milk is cooled immediately at a temperature of 45° Fahrenheit. 
It then enters another tube which carries it to the bottling machine 
tank. In the process of bottling, the milk passes through a cotton- 
batting strainer which removes all possibility of foreign substance 
being contained with the milk. Each piece of cotton-batting is used 
but once, and is then destroyed. Twelve bottles standing in a gal- 
vanized iron carrier are filled with one operation of this machine 
which is so devised that the use of an automatic valve closes the 
pressure of milk when the bottles are filled without spilling any of 
the milk on the sides. 

The bottles are then placed in a capping machine which squeezes 
on the top automatically, a tin cap lined with sterile paper. This 




^^HTHERE is virtue in the coto ; she is full of goodness; the whole 

landscape lool(s out of her soft epes. 
/ rvould rather have the care of cattle than be the l(eeper of the great 
seal of the Nation."- — Burroughs. 



form of cap removes any possibility of dirt or bacteria entering the 
milk after it has been bottled. It is locked solidly in its place, and 
unless it can be removed with the hands, the consumer may be sure 
it has not been opened since leaving the dairy. The bottles in the 
carrier are then placed in a chest and covered with chipped ice. 

At midnight they are taken out, still covered with ice, and are 
carried by automobile truck to Worcester, where they are loaded 
into smaller trucks and wagons and delivered to the homes of con- 
sumers. All surplus milk is passed through a DeLaval separator 
and the cream is churned into butter. All containers and tubes and 
all appliances in which milk is carried are washed and steamed 
thoroughly after using, then immersed in pure water until next used, 
the bottles being cleaned in an automatic bottle soaker, so-called. 

Empty milk bottles are made absolutely sterile by the use of this 
machine. The bottles are placed in a slanting position on carriers 
which are fastened to an endless chain arrangement and carried 
in a ten-minute immersion through a tank filled with strong, hot alkali 
water, which has sufficient strength to destroy all germs and remove 
all grease. Emerging from this part of the machine the bottles are 




Sir Pontiac Hegerveld De Kol, No. 80139 

** A KINCLY character he bears 

Unfading is the croTvn he Tvears." — CowPER. 

emptied automatically and are washed thoroughly by revolving 
brushes propelled by a turbine. These brushes, which reach every 
part of the interior of the bottle, revolving at a rate of several hundred 
times a minute, add doubly to the purity of the process and prepare 
them for another bath in pure hot water. When the bottles have 
passed through this process, they are dried almost instantly because 
of the high temperature of the bath. 

In the basement of the dairy is a forty horse-power boiler, which 
furnishes steam for sterilizing and washing all cans and the various 
utensils used. This boiler receives its heat from wood fires, the wood 
being cut on the farm, in accordance with the policy of the manage- 
ment to provide as much as possible all products used on the farm 
from native soil. Ice cut from Crystal Lake on the farm is stored 
in an ice house nearby, and from there a refrigerator in the dairy 
room, with a capacity of two tons, is filled. In this refrigerator are 
kept cans of cream to be churned into butter, cases of eggs and 
poultry dressed for the market. 




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^^\A/E paused at last where home-bound cores 

Brought down the pasture's treasure." — Whittier. 



Electrical current is developed on the farm for lighting and power. 
At the dam of Crystal Lake there is a power house in which is installed 
a turbine wheel, which is propelled by a fall of sixteen feet through a 
thirty inch pipe, and which is capable of developing fifteen horse- 
power. The current is carried through copper wires to a switchboard 
and is from there distributed to the various buildings through under- 
ground conduits. As an auxiliary there is in use a ten horse-power 
kerosene oil engine and generator, which is connected with the same 
switchboard, so that it may be brought into use by simply turning 
a switch. There are one hundred and forty electric lights on the 
farm and within the buildings, sixty of which are in Sunshine Stable. 
The current is carried to Cold Spring some distance from the build- 
ings and attached to a three-plunger pump operated by a motor 
which pumps water to a reservoir on the hill, giving gravity supply 
to all buildings. There is an adequate supply of pure water for the 
dozen or more farm buildings, even in seasons of the most severe 
drouth. 




'^UROM fairest creatures 

n>e desire increase." — Shakespeare. 

The While every scientific authority recognizes a number 

Holstein- of causes for variation in milk, all place particular 
Friesian stress on the breed of cow as a factor of first impor- 
tance. This being the case, it is interesting to note the 
history and characteristics of Holstein-Friesian cattle, in order to 
ascertain just why the consensus of expert opinion leaves no room to 
doubt the superiority of Holstein-Friesian cows' milk as human food. 
Holstein-Friesian cattle, the greatest of all milch cows, have been 
m the process of development over two thousand years. They were 
introduced from the provinces of north Holland and Friesland, a 
section of the kingdom of The Netherlands, bordering on the North 
Sea. The present dairymen of these provinces are descendants of 
the ancient Friesians, and their cattle are lineal descendants from the 
herds of their ancestors. From the earliest accounts of their dairy 
husbandry, these black and white cattle have been used and devel- 
oped for dairy purposes. Easterly and northerly from its place of 
origin, this breed ha^ spread, until it has extended even to Russia, 
where, at the mouth of the river Dwina, nearly under the Arctic 
Circle, it has produced the Kholmogorian breed, the most highly 




(ipRIDE of ihy age, 

and glory of thy race. — PoPE. 

valued cattle of that country. Holstein blood is strong and not only 
remains unimpaired in all sections of the world, but improves all 
others with which it is mingled. 

These Hollanders developed cattle of sturdy thrift and plodding 
patience, qualities which have been maintained and are manifest m 
their descendants to-day. These farmers have always avoided inter- 
breeding, and for this reason the Holland cow possesses more stamina 
and prepotency than any other animal. The Dutch dairymen through 
the centuries have bent their efforts toward improving constantly the 
milk producing capacity of their herds, and the liberal importation 
of the best strains of these cattle to the United States has been 
responsible for the upbuilding of American Holstein herds. 

The first recorded importation of these cattle was made by the 
Holland Land Company in 1795. During the past twenty-five 
years, the marked advance in the proper housing and the proper care 
of cattle has increased the popularity of this breed, and well-informed 
farmers are coming to know that the milk of Holstein-Friesians is 
the ideal milk for human consumption, while the public, on the other 
hand, is beginning to realize that it must specify this particular milk 




^^U'VEN the homely farm can teach us 

there is something in descent," — Tennyson. 



as a means of safety and proper nourishment. In the herd at Indian 
Hill Farm are to be found the most notable strains of the Holstein- 
Friesian breed, particularly the Pontiac strain. Throughout the year 
the herd numbers from fifty to sixty head, representing in pedigree 
many generations of the most popular and highest producing strains 
in America. Heading this herd is the lordly Sir Pontiac Hengewell 
DeKol Number 80139, sired by the world-famous King Pontiac 
Butter Boy. 

Vigor and That the Holstein-Friesian cow is large, strong and 

Vitality healthy is self-evident, but many fail to take into con- 

sideration the value of this vigor and vitality in the 
cow. The importance of the health of the cow is now gaining 
recognition, however, proof of which is found in a visit to any first 
class public institution or sanitarium where, if it produces its milk, 
A'ill be found a herd of pure bred Holsteins. Experience soon 
teaches that the milk of the Holstein cow is the only milk that can 
be fed in safety to every class of infant or invalid. The strength and 






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HTsJEiV-DORN flocks, in rustic dance. 

Frisky ply '/"e"" feeble feet. — Grav. 



wonderful constitutional vitality of this cow makes tuberculosis and 
other diseases to which cattle are prey almost unknown among them. 
Physicians who have been in a position to make a serious study of 
cows' milk aver that Holstein milk is the ideal milk for consumption, 
and pure bred Holstein cattle are the final choice of every institution 
or organization that attempts to produce milk in a scientific manner. 
The strongest proof that this breed has kept a high standard of 
vital force is the fact that it is maintained in almost every climate, 
even to the rigorous cold of northern Russia. In America it proves 
as hardy as native breeds. The large size of the Holstein is of 
importance that should never be disregarded, for it is to this magni- 
tude that they owe in part their extraordinary constitutional vigor or 
vital force, which affects all their relations to their food, care and 
production. Their robustness makes them especially resistant to 
disease, while the more delicate breeds are more easily conquered by 
such scourges as tuberculosis. In temperament they are quiet and 
docile, bulls as well as cows, showing the result of centuries of the 
kindest treatment, for it must be known that the shrewd Holland 




Home of Farm Manager 

"Y^£ /lappp Fields un/fno Ji>n io noise and strife 

The l(ind rewarder of induslrious life."- — Gay. 

dairymen appreciated the value of kindness from a commercial stand- 
point. They knew that all nervous excitement of whatever nature 
lessened milk production and affected its quality, and so by means 
of the most careful and considerate handling they were remarkably 
successful in developing the placid, easy-going disposition that is 
such a striking contrast to the high-strung nervous temperament found 
in other breeds. 



Pure The criterion of pure milk is the bacteria count. The re- 

Milk quirement of the Board of Health of the City of Worcester in 
this particular is that milk shall not contain over five hundred 
thousand bacteria per cubic centimeter, or an amount equal to one- 
fourth of a teaspoon ful. Inspected milk is that containing from thirty 
thousand to one hundred thousand, while certified milk contains not 
over ten thousand. Tests made at Indian Hill Farm have shown much 
lower than that required for certified milk. The bacteria count gives 
assurance that milk is pure, and that nothing on the farm pertaining 
to the cows is radically wrong. It enables the manager to improve 
his system, step by step, and incites interest and pride among the 
dairy-workers who begin to strive to make a record for their milk. 




Threshing Rye in Field 

**D £ ihanlfful io the fields, though summer's sweets lie dead. 

It Was their fleece that clothed you. 
Their green blades brought you bread." — Stanton. 



The all-crowning event, therefore, of the up-to-date dairyman is to 
minimize the bacteria count in his milk. As an aid to this, bacteria 
tests are made at Indian Hill Farm each week. 

Pure milk necessarily costs more to produce, but the many fatali- 
ties recorded daily are sufficient argument to prove that milk is not 
an item on which to economize. Relative to this subject a paper 
written by A. D. Melvin, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
of the United States Department of Agriculture, states: "The fact 
that there have been exaggerations of the demands and added ex- 
pense of modern inspection is no argument against the consumer recog- 
nizing that the word 'quality' as applied to milk means more than 
chemical composition, that there may be milks of widely varying quality 
even where the amount of milk solids is the same. A reasonably 
clean milk is worth 2 cents more than common slovenly milk. The 
former is safer and therefore cheaper at the increased price. There 
has been too much indifference on the part of consumers regarding 
clean milk, too much of a tendency to regard all milk as the same, 
and too much of a desire to buy it at a low price, regardless of 
quality. Merely as a matter of sentiment and refinement, clean and 



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flp hands unseen, are s/iojuers of violets found; 



The redbreast loves to build and ivarble there. 
And little foosteps li§htl\) print the ground." — Gray. 



fresh fruit and vegetables command a premium, while dirty food is 
frequently unsalable at any price. Milk, however, is often regarded 
with less discrimination. A little sediment meets with no emphatic 
disapproval. Consumers on seeing side-by-side pictures of bad and 
of sanitary stables comment favorably on the latter and express dis- 
approval of a food produced in the former, but they haggle over the 
price and when it comes to paying the bills fail to recognize more 
value in one kind of milk than the other. Milk in most instances is 
consumed raw, and is exposed to the direct contamination of all the 
bad conditions with which it comes in contact. Furthermore, it is 
the exclusive diet of many invalids and infants, and is an almost 
perfect medium for the development and spread of germ diseases. 
Aside from any refined prejudices in favor of clean food, dirty milk 
may prove expensive even as a gift, while clean milk may be an 
economy at several cents above the ordinary price. The cheapest 
article is often the most extravagant. A few additional cents a 
quart for milk is cheap insurance against some forms of sickness." 




Crystal Lake 

**y£5; it is the sun descending. 

Sinking down into the Tvater ; 
All the s^p 15 stained with purple. 
All the Ti>ater flushed with crimson!"- — LoNGFELLOW. 

Importance It is an easy matter for a person to be misled 

of Pure regarding the quality of milk left at his door. A 

Milk bad egg, for example, cannot be disguised, while 

over-ripe or green fruit can be detected by the eye. 
The difference in the taste of most articles of food reveals to the 
consumer why he should pay more for one brand than for another, 
but bad or infected milk keeps its secret until the consumer is sent 
to bed ill. There is no unpleasant taste or other detectable sign 
when one drinks a glass containing a few million extra injurious 
bacteria. Most milk tastes alike to the consumer; therefore he is 
likely to buy the cheapest, and milk that is the most unsafe. Some 
say they cannot see the philosophy of paying for cleanliness and 
sanitation when the old methods have always done well enough until 
the "germ fad" was discovered. Such persons are liable to fail to 
understand that milk is not a thing on which to economize until, per- 
haps, they have lost a child through the agency of impure milk. 
The model dairy has the advantage also that it does away with 




** A CHARM from the i^ies seems lo halloxo us there. 

Which sought through the earth is not met with elseii>here."- — Payne. 



the necessity of pasteurizing milk. While pasteurized milk is a great 
blessing to some communities, it must be considered that when milk 
is pasteurized all non-pathogenic as well as pathogenic germs are 
destroyed. Pasteurized milk will not sour, and for that reason 
cannot be used in some forms of cooking. It will decay, however, 
and in decay becomes more harmful than milk which has not been 
pasteurized. Advocates of pure milk are sometimes met with the 
argument that a person has been taking milk from the same place 
for years, and while it is known that the producer is not making any 
marked attempt toward modern sanitation, with an alarming degree 
of thoughtlessness they say they will wait until they can see evidence 
of harm before making a change. Others perhaps dwell on the 
theory that the New England farmers of the old days did very well 
without modern ideas of sanitation. A walk through the churchyards 
of the early New Englanders, and a count of the little stones over 
the graves of their children will show that in some families but one 
child of six or eight survived. This appalling infant mortality, mostly 
during the summer when the climate was good but when the milk of 
dog-days was bad, is a most potent answer to such argument. 




^^DUT rvben glad summer at the west ivinds' call 

Shall send the flocl(s to Tvoods and pastures free."- — Vergil. 

Food Many think of milk, for adults, at least, as a bever- 

Value of age rather than a food, and do not realize that a glass 
Milk of it adds as much to the nutritive value of a meal as 

a quarter of a loaf of bread or a good slice of beef. 
The New York Milk Committee, in making a comparison of the cost 
and value of various articles of food, stated that one quart of milk is 
about equal in food value to any one of the following: 

3-4 lb. of lean round beef 3 lb. fresh codfish 

8 eggs 2 lb. chicken 

2 lb. potatoes 4 lb. beets 

6 lb. spinach 5 lb. turnips 

7 lb. lettuce 1-6 lb. butter 

4 lb. cabbage 1 -3 lb. wheat flour 

2 lb. salt codfish 1-3 lb. cheese 

J. Allen Gilbert, Ph.D., M.D., of Portland, Ore., says: "In 
milk are contained all the elements necessary to the maintenance of 
the human body, and evidence is to be had in abundance showing 
that milk is in no sense a luxury, but is an economical article of diet." 




iir\XEN that rattle the yoke and 
Or halt in the leafy shade."- 



zhain, 
-Whitman. 



M. J. Rosenau, M.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine and 
Hygiene, Harvard Medical School, says of milk: "No other or- 
gcinic food stuff shows such a marked variation, except meat. To 
most people milk is milk. About the only preference they indicate 
inclines toward the thickest, creamiest milk that they can get. Because 
of its cream they have a feeling that it is more desirable, possessing 
more nourishment, and being, therefore, of greater value. This 
erroneous notion is also reflected in the milk standards adopted by 
State Boards of Health for the regulation of the milk supplied to the 
people. In thoroughly praiseworthy attempts to protect the pubHc 
health, these misguided officials have helped to perpetuate a mistaken 
idea that food chemists and physicians have proved repeatedly to be 
entirely opposed to the truth. It is this very cream — really the fat 
in the milk from which butter is formed — that contains the element 
of greatest danger to the digestive organs of infants and adult invalids. 
And it is not the fat (cream), but the proteins (the tissue, muscle, 
bone and blood makers), that form the ingredients of greatest value 
in milk." 




^^^JOW lo the cooling shades, the coivs retreat. 

To drotvse and dream iviih mild, half-opening epes." — WiLsON. 

Superiority Convincing testimony, establishing beyond ques- 

of Holstein tion the preeminent position of Holstein Milk, is 
Milk furnished by eminent specialists, all of whom are led 

to the same conclusions by exhaustive investigations 
supplementing the most careful tests. It is only comparatively recently 
that the medical profession has given itself so completely to the study 
of preventive medicine, as a result of the enormous waste in human 
life that is such a blot on our civilization. It has been well said that 
the infant death-rate of a community is a test of its civilization. There 
is, therefore, something more than a mere coincidence in the fact that, 
with the general recognition that the work of keeping people well is 
of far greater constructive value than the curing of the sick, has come 
an appreciation of the wonderful help that Holstein milk offers toward 
that end. In view of the fact that so many disorders associated with 
infant or adult invalid feeding arises from the indigestibility of milk 
rich in fat, this variation in the product of the different breeds is 
exceedingly important. When knowledge on this subject becomes 
general, when its importance is understood, people will learn to ask 
for milk by name, and the name that will be in every mind and on 




^^'T'HE Earth is a machine rvhich yields almost gratuitous service 
to every application of intellect." — Emerson. 

every tongue will identify the breed of cows whose milk possesses 
demonstrated superiority for human food. 



Holstein Milk from the larger cows in the Indian Hill Farm 

Baby herd, or from one particular cow at each delivery, the 

Milk selection being made after examination of all the animal's 

qualities, is reserved for baby milk, which is placed in 
bottles containing a distinguishing cap. Indian Hill Farm Baby milk 
may be allowed to follow directly after the stork has left its precious 
burden in the home. 

Every man wants to bring his baby to strong manhood or woman- 
hood. He would make heroic sacrifices if he knew his little one's 
welfare required it, but too often he remains ignorant of the great 
necessity of proper milk. He remains ignorant of the fact that nine- 
tenths of the illness that may possibly inflict itself upon the child is 
due directly to its food. The well-informed father or mother knows 
there cannot be too much care exercised in ascertaining the facts 
concerning the source of the milk supply. 






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Indian Hill Farm, 1861 
(Courtesy Colonial Publishing Company, Springfield, Mass.) 



i^UlRMLY builded ivilh raflers of oak, the house of the farmer 
^ Stood on the side of a hill." — LoNGFELLOW. 



Dr. Thomas Morgan Rotch of Boston, whose fame as a specialist 
in infant feeding is international, says of the Holstein: "The cow 
represents the most perfect milking animal known, having every 
characteristic of a cow suitable for an infant's milk supply. Its milk 
IS good and nourishing, and comes nearer to human milk than that of 
any other breed of cows. The reason for this is that the emulsion of 
the fats in Holstein Milk is much nearer in fineness to the emulsion in 
human milk than is that of other breeds. The fat also contains a less 
amount of the objectionable volatile glycerides so pronounced in the 
fats of the Jersey cows, and in this way also corresponds more closely 
to the quality of human milk. As a physician dealing with infants, 
I have many instances coming to my notice of cases where the milk 
of the Holstein Cow is the only quality the stomach of the infant will 
retain." 




** A ND ihis our life, exempt from public haunt. 

Finds tongues in trees, hool(s in the running broolfs. 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything." — ShakespeaRE. 



Dr. Lamson Allen of Worcester talks from an experience of over 
thirty years when he says: "It seems incredible, but it is nevertheless 
true, that the average medical practitioner is more easily swayed by 
tradition than governed by reason, especially in the matter of prescrib- 
ing food for infants, invalids and convalescents. When will the 
medical world throw off the incubus of feeding 'top milk in the 
above cases? Not until they will allow logical reason to supersede 
illogical custom. It ought to be unnecessary to remind the medical 
profession that 'top milk' contains too large a proportion of calories 
to the tissue-building ingredients of milk. We must always realize 
that what the child, the invalid and the convalescent need above all 
else is the building up of tissue rather than the accumulation of heat 
elements. The fats of milk may tickle the palate, but the palate is 
a very insignificant portion of the body compared with the other 
essential parts thereof. It is not only the fact of the lower percentage 
of butter- fat in the Holstein Milk that gives it its superior quality, but 
it is the fact that the globules of the butter-fat are so much smaller in 
Holsein Milk than in milk of other breeds that makes it so reliable 




iij MMORTAL heirs of universal praise. 



IVhose honors Tvith increase of ages groiv." — PoPE. 



and so valuable. The smaller size of the fat globules also helps in 
making milk coagulate in smaller curds in the stomach durmg diges- 
tion, thereby enabling the stomach to do its proper work more easily 
and safely." 

Clean milk, kept cold and properly protected, shows very little 
change in three or even five days. When special precautions are 
taken, it is possible to keep milk so that it may be shipped from 
America to Europe and return, and still be in good condition. It is 
possible to have sweet milk on transatlantic liners without replenishing 
the supply oftener than once a round trip. 

At the Paris Exposition in 1900, milk shipped from the United 
States arrived in good condition and remained pure and sweet for 
several days, dumbfounding the French farmers, who could not 
deliver milk more than one hundred miles, or have it in good condition 
for more than forty-eight hours. Nothing but coldness and cleanli- 
ness contributed to these wonderful results. 



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Brooder Housl 



^^J-IEAR the chtcl(ens cheep, bo^s, and the hen Tvilh pride 

Clucl(ing ihem lo sleep, boys, on the sunn}) side." — RiLEY. 



In the home, milk should be kept cold, clean and covered. The 
sanitary crowns which are used on milk bottles sent out from Indian 
Hill Farm may be replaced and all danger of outside contamination 
eliminated after part of the milk has been used. It is never safe to 
replace a paper cap on a milk bottle. 

The smooth metal surface of Indian Hill Farm bottle crowns, 
rather than dust-collecting countersunk paper lids, seal the bottles 
perfectly. This method of sealing is strictly hermetic, protecting the 
milk from bacilli, dust and dirt, and is a safeguard against the milk 
being tampered with. The crown being removed readily with an 
opener, eliminates spattering and loss of top-cream; while the pouring 
hp, over which the milk must pass, is never left exposed to the tongues 
of germ-bearing dogs or cats or the hands of infected humans. 

Scientists in dietetics advise a more general use of milk as food 
adapted to supplying the various needs of the human system. Milk 
is the only safe food for infants when their delicate bodies first begin 
to grow. It is a foundation upon which the human body is builded 



safely. From the days when the infant first looks up in wonderment 
from its cradle-down to the death-bed of the aged, milk is a boon, 
a preserver of life, a giver of health and a 
palatable delicacy. Pure milk is a food and 
a medicine; but delicious, healthful and nour- 
ishing as it is American people consume com- 
paratively little of it per capita. At nine 
cents per quart, the average American uses 
only six dollars and sixty-six cents worth of 
milk in a year. Fie would be much better 
off if he went to the milk jar oftener and 
tarried longer over its delicious, invigorating 
potion — provided the milk is pure. Through 

,. „, the rigid system of inspection, and thorough 

Miss Worcester 

The Heart of the Com- process of Sterilization, it is possible at In- 
monwealth. She wears dian Hill Farm to produce milk that is pure 

her heart on her i r r r i- ■ • 

forehead. ^"" '^•'^^ irom disease-dissemmating germs. 




The Stray Cafs Confession 

J DO NOT BELIEVE in the theory of germs. In fact, n^ith all 
kinds I /fcep try^st. I steal all about in the darJ( hours of night, 
and temptation I never resist. A bottle of milk Ti>ilh a loose paper 
cap is a feast that I never for- 
sake. The milk rnay be sterile, 
from thoroughbred cows, but it's 
free for all cats to partake. But 
I have no use for the tight-fitling 
caps on the bottles from Indian 
Hill Farm. The babies may 
have it all to themselves, for it's 

locked where I do it no harm. 

I Maiiiiiiii' I'liiTiiTSiiii ■■iiViii ■iiiiii ■iiilii iSSSiiiiJiif I 




The poultry at Indian Hill 
Farm consists of exceptional 
strains of single-comb White 
Leghorns and White Plymouth 
Rocks. The poultry buildings 
have been planned in harmony 
with their surroundings, cost not 
being the primary consideration. 
Chicks are given the advantage 
of almost unlimited range. They 
roam at will over fields and 
woods, growing into strong, vig- 
orous fowls, under such condi- 
tions being able to acquire un- 
usual strength and vitality. Hall 
Mammoth Incubators, with a 
total capacity of 10,400, furnish 
an output of sixty thousand chicks 
during the season beginning February 1 and ending June 15. The 
brooder house is two hundred and twenty feet long, and has a 
capacity of six thousand chicks. There are five laying houses with 
a capacity of twenty-four hundred. Ranged along a sunny slope are 
forty colony houses of the open front type which accommodate from 
seventy-five to one hundred chicks each. 




A Laying of Four Hundred Eggs 




Five Thousand-Egg Incubator 
' i HE mighly mother of a mighfy brood."- — Lowell. 



Laying House Number Two 

^^'T'HE eye thai with a glance discerns 

This shaping potency behind the egg." — LoWELL. 

In laying the foundation for these flocks, the best breeding stock 
obtainable was secured. The birds have been selected and bred 
under the supervision of an expert poultryman, during the last five 
years. They are bred strictly for heavy egg production and fine 
table qualities. All stock is graded carefully in the fall before going 
into winter quarters, and from the high grades are selected the most 
promising pullets. These are trap-nested, and the highest producers 
are mated with males of known breeding. In these poultry yards 
are special matings from which eggs or chicks are not sold, but are 
kept solely for the purpose of replenishing the stock. Among these 
are matings headed by the Leghorn Cockerel Indian Hill Pride 
No. 4205, and son of hen No. 3271, with a record of 241 eggs in 
her pullet year, while the dam of this hen. No. 2415, had a record 
of 248, and her dam was hen No. 2420 with a record of 288. The 
sire of this cockerel. No. 190, was from a dam No. 2420 with a 
record of 288. Among Indian Hill Pride's flock of high class 
single-comb white leghorns are two full sisters. Princess Dawn and 
Lady Snow, daughters of hen No. 2433 with a record of 237, 




Princess Dawn Pride of Indian Hill 



Lady Snow 



^^1 N the rare spring da^s il was good to hear. 

The song of the hens and the rooster's crow. 
The cheep of the chicl(ens, low and clear. 
The cliicl( of the mother brooding near." — Greenleaf. 



whose dam was hen No. 2426. In these stock pens are selected 
birds with only males that are closely associated with the 250 egg 
record. Live pullets of both the single-comb White Leghorn and 
White Plymouth Rock varieties are sold, many going to the market 
at an advantage of ten weeks' age, when the mortality stage is passed, 
while thousands of day-old chicks are furnished to the trade in the 
early spring. Indian Hill Farm eggs and dressed fancy poultry — 
broilers, roasters and ^^^^^ capons — are delivered 

from the mJk wagons ^ ^KSB^ '^^' cover the City of 

Worcester, all eggs m '^"^"'^'^K being delivered in seal- 

ed cartons, bearing the g/ | date of laying. 




(^ONTENT with what life gives and takes." — LoWELL. 



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